California Bombs on Plastic Bag Ban

Photo by Taberandrew Despite San Francisco leading the way on banning plastic bags back in 2007 , California senators rejected a proposed plan to ban plastic bags statewide. The measure to remove carryout plastic bags from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience shops would have taken effect by July 2012 in larger stores, and 2013 in smaller stores, and it would have made California the first state to institute a ban like this

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Canadian Tar Sands Industry & Government Maintains Higher Water Toxicity Near Projects is Natural

map: Wikipedia The Canadian tar sands industry-government group Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program doesn’t much like a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that tar sands projects are responsible for elevated levels of water toxicity downstream from projects. RAMP’s Fred Kuzmic maintains that any to… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tar Sands Projects Responsible for Water Pollution in Alberta’s Rivers – Despite Industry Claims to Contrary

photo: sbamueller via flickr Contradicting previous industry- and government-backed studies about the source of pollution occurring downstream from Alberta tar sands projects, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that high levels of lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc and other pollutants are not naturally occurring. As Cree elders have said for some time,

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EPA & DOT Propose Clearer, More Colorful Fuel Economy Labels

Image: EPA Making Guzzlers Stand Out Even More One way to nudge people into making better decisions is to make it easier to compare different products and services. There are still many people out there who have no idea if 16 MPG is a good or bad, but if they saw a big red “D” on a sticker, they might be tempted to find a vehicle with a better grade. That’s the goal behind new fuel economy labels proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT).

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Commercial Palm Oil Production in Southeast Asia Violating Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: New Survey

photo: Forest Peoples Programme Take this one as reinforcement of what plenty of environmental NGOs have been saying for some time: The commercial palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia is trampling the rights of indigenous people and destroying rainforests as it rapidly expands. A new report from the Forest Peoples Programme details the damage…

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Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Super Healthy Superfoods (Video)

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Men Waste £2,000 in Fuel While Lost Because They Won’t Ask for Directions

Image: Google Maps 276 Extra Miles Per Year on Average According to a study by British insurer Sheilas’ Wheels (watch out for the bright pink website), men waste about £2,000 in fuel over their lifetime because they won’t ask for directions when they are lost, leading to an average of 276 extra miles being driven per year. Definitely not green…… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Contaminated Truffles Irradiating Wild Boars

Image credit: Subharnab /Flickr When Chernobyl’s reactor number four ignited in 1986, it sent a plume of radioactive fallout into the air that eventually spread across Europe. One place it settled was Germany.

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EPA Decides To Take e-Waste (Sort of) Seriously. Finally.

Photo via Justin Beck The Environmental Protection Agency has been frustratingly lax on e-waste issues , paying little attention to quality enforcement of policies, or even putting stringent policies in place at all. But finally, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said on Tuesday that e-waste is now one of the top five priorities for the agency. While vague in exactly what the EPA would do to improve the immense problem of e-was..

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World’s Richest Hindu Temple Doesn’t Just Ban Plastic Bags, Bans Plastics

photo: Ashok Prabhakaran via flickr Now this is really the spirit: The Tribune (Chandigarh, India) reports that Tirumala’s Sri Venkateswara temple , the richest Hindu in the world with some 60,000 people visiting daily, will soon be a plastic-free zone, after the state government of Andhra Pradesh decided to ban the use of plastic products there. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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